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Quote: "Don't throw your cans in the hydrangea," said the first Indian. "It's hard to get them out. We're not as young as we used to be”

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Quote: "Don't throw your cans in the hydrangea," said the first Indian. "It's hard to get them out. We're not as young as we used to be”

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"A Seat in the Garden", by Thomas King, document 5

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Quote: Seven Forward               Seven Back 

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Quote: Seven Forward               Seven Back 

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Document 4b:  a poem
"I'm Not the Indian you Had in Mind", by Thomas King

Source: nationals film institute
writer: Tomas king

"As you live your days that we live ours under the gaze of generations watching us of generations still in act of generations still to be seven forward seven back."

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TB is at epidemic levels, and the rate of HIV infection is higher than Nigeria’s. This is a Canada of broken windows in tarpaper shacks.

Our wives don’t live in fear of sexual assault, and the justice system treats us with compassion. Life is good.

In the other Canada there are 89 communities without safe drinking water.

A child is more likely to be sexually assaulted than to graduate high school.

source: The Canada most people don't see by Scott Gilmore, MacLean's, https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-canada-most-people-dont-see/

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"... my stepfather used to boil water and put it in the sink. He would have me wash dishes in it pretty soon after that, and I remember the water being so hot that it used to burn my fingers."

"... there were no bedtime stories, no hugs, no kisses, and if you scraped your knee nobody cleaned it up for you. ... How can you grow up to give support and nurturing in those ways, if you never experienced it yourself?"

"The residential school system was never about what they wanted the children to learn. It’s what they didn’t want them to learn."

Jackie Hansen, Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.ca/blog/%E2%80%9Cseven-generations-healing%E2%80%9D-conversation-christy-jordan-fenton-about-lasting-effects

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Quote: "I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind"

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Quote: "I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind"

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Thomas King, 4c

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Quote: "The Canada most people don’t see" by Scott Gilmore, June 2017

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Quote: "The Canada most people don’t see" by Scott Gilmore, June 2017

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"In the other Canada there are 89 communities without safe drinking water."
"A child is more likely to be sexually assaulted than to graduate high school."
"The murder rate is worse than Somalia’s and the incarceration rate is the highest in the world."
source : macleans

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Document 1 to 8

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Document 6b: "Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report points to 'growing crisis' for indigenous youth", by Susanna Mas of CBC News

Guiding Question:
According to the 2015 commission, how was 100 years of mistreatment had on 150 000 First Nations and the death of 3200 indigenous children caused?

Main ideas:
-Physical abuse
-Sexual abuse
-Malnutrition
-Poor living conditions
-Tuberculosis

Awnser: During those times, the indigenous children where physically and sexually abused in the residential schools. Furthermore, 3200 indigenous children died from tuberculosis, malnutrition and other diseases resulting from poor living conditions.

Document 6b image description: "A 1945 investigation in parental complaints at the Gordon's Reserve school in Saskatchewan reported that for one dinner children were fed a single slice of bologna, potatoes, bread and milk. (General Synod Archives/Anglican Church of Canada)"

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Doc 8:  "The Canada most people don’t see" by Scott Gilmore, June 2017

Guiding Question:   While you read, try to locate Scott Gilmore's thesis (his message to us readers).    Restate (in your own words) the main idea that he delivers in this disturbing and passionate editorial.

List of main ideas:

1. We are not aware about the true living conditions (assault, abuse, suicide, fear, unenployment)

2. Injustice enforced by the law (Police, Judges, lawyers, child welfare)

3.Huge constrast between our living our canada and indigeous canada (living conditions)

4. Politicians put on a show of caring

Answet to the guiding question: We live in a safe and just and wealthy contry, but they live in a dangerous, unjust and poor contry. But yet it's the same country.

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Document 8:

"The Canada most people don’t see" by Scott Gilmore, June 2017

Guiding Question:   While you read, try to locate Scott Gilmore's thesis (his message to us readers).    Restate (in your own words) the main idea that he delivers in this disturbing and passionate editorial.

Main ideas:
-violence
-abuse/rape
-kidnapping
-The Canada that no outsider sees

Answer :
His message to the readers is to show the raw reality concerning the non-indigenous population vs the indigenous community. He presents many situations where First Nations people were treated as an inferiority, which is totally unfair and bias.
Image : The thesis

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Document 6c:
“Seven generations of healing” Conversation with Christy Jordan-Fenton about the lasting effects of the residential school system,   A blog post by Jacjie Hansen of Amnesty International

Guiding Question:  According to activist Christy Jordan-Fenton, how did the residential school system cause the deep social problems within Indigenous communities today?

Main ideas:
-abuse
-did not speak up
-mentally hurt
-could not go to the police to denounce the police
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Answer: The little girls were taught that they were nothing and the little boys were often abused. THese kids grew up as being people that did not stand up for them self so they just keeped it for themself and nothing changed. Futhermore they were mentaly disturbed by all these horible memories and felt like nothing so they would drink and find themselves in these places they are today

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Aboriginal cycle of disadvantage  and problems in Canada 

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Aboriginal cycle of disadvantage  and problems in Canada 

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Document 7a) - "Aboriginal Issues in Canada" Taken from YouTube, this video project by students at Western University provides a summary of the main social problems facing indigenous communities today.  Most of the statistics are well-referenced and credible.

Guiding Question: Explain (with supporting statistics) the crippling social problems facing Indigenous people in Canada, as well as how these problems fit into a "Cycle of Disadvantage" (you might need to Google the term "cycle of disadvantage")

Main ideas
- Education failure of indigenous people

- Mistreating and violence towards aboriginal women

- Low income compared to non-aboriginal's

- High child poverty rates

- Poor health

- Needed water advisories
- Youth suicides

Answer
The current situation of Aboriginal children creates a cycle of disadvantage. They face more poverty, health issues, low quality housing, inadequate education and more violence. In 2005, the income gap between Aboriginal an Non-Aboriginals Canadians was 28,8%. Child poverty is more than double for the Indigenous children than the Non-Indigenous children. Aboriginal women were almost 3 times more likely to report that they had been tainted by physical violence in the past five years. More than half (60%) of students living on Reserves didn't graduate high school.

By not helping to improve Aboriginal living conditions, health care and social inclusion, a vicious cycle is created that affects not only the children but society and Canada as a whole. 3 to 5 times more Aboriginal adults are incarcerated compared to Non-Aboriginals. Youth suicides for Aboriginals in Canada is 3 to 7 times higher than Non-Aboriginals.

To break the cycle of disadvantage from mothers to daughters, from parents to children, Canada needs to revise the policies towards Aboriginals societies to promote equality and fight against discrimination.

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Knowing the past in order to plan for the future

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Knowing the past in order to plan for the future

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Document 6b:  News article
"Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report points to 'growing crisis' for indigenous youth", by Susanna Mas of CBC News
Guiding Question:  Explain the Truth and Reconciliation Report ... the one we see in the above editorial cartoon?
Answer:
It is a document in which is recorded the history of awful happenings related to idigenous children attending institutions in Canada's residention school system
Main Ideas:
-high rate of juvenile deaths in in idigenous communities
-efforts to acheive reconciliation by the canadian governement

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Document 4 - "I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind", by Thomas King

Guiding Question: What is Thomas King's main message (theme) about modern Indigenous culture?

Main ideas
- Do not respect environment

- Project a stereotype

- Do not respect culture

- Take decision based on economic

- Make decision for the present, do not think about the future

- Do not learn from history
- Will have to live with the consequences of theirs actions

Answer
The First Nation people are more than what people think they are.  They are not the characters we’ve seen on TV or as described in books.  The modern Indigenous person is involved in the community, participates in the development of the economy by owing businesses and possesses many dimensions not just the one pictures in movies or novels.

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Document 2:   An editorial

"What does it take to break stereotypes about First Nations?", by Tamara Ainscow

Guiding Question:   In our society, what are the most common stereotypes about indigenous people"?

Common  indigenous stereotypes
- drugs and alcohol
- all natives are spiritual beings
- First Nations are savages

Answer: The most common stereotypes that First Nations people suffer are their use of drugs and alcohol, the image that they are all spiritual creatures and, finally, that they are savages.

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Document 4b : I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind
by Thomas King
Guiding Question:  What is Thomas King's main message (theme) about modern Indigenous culture?

Main ideas
-They are more then what society thinks
-There's a lot of stereotypes
-Indian is not the right word to use
Answer
Indegious people have more to say and more to
express because they and more than what we think.

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Document 4a) :  "I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind", by Thomas King

Guiding question : What is Thomas King's main message (theme) about modern Indigenous culture?

-denunciation of the stereotypes projected oftenly in movies
-denunciation of pollution "seven forward, seven back [generations]"
-First Nations are people just like us and they don't all live in the reserves

Thomas King's intention is to stop the propaganda  of the stereotypes concerning First Nations people by presenting a provocative video that sends a message to people in Canada that they are just like us.

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I learned, taken from the CBC show, The Strombo Show, Wab Kinew's vision on the 5 common stereotypes about natives in Canada. These are Alcohol, "why don't you guy just get over it", the long hair thing, the 7 billion dollars and taxes.

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Wab Kinew on the Stereotypes about Natives in Canada

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Document 1: "How to Talk about Indigenous people", by Ossie Michelin.

Guiding Question:   What is the difference between the words, "indigenous" and "First Nations" and "aboriginal"?

Indigenous is a general term.... internationally accepted.
Wanna be more specific???    Use one of these 3 terms:
1.  First Nations
2.  Metis
3. Inuit or Inuk
If you do not know what nation a person belongs to.... ask them.
"Aboriginal"is an OK word.   But it is slowly fading away

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Topic 3:  Neglected Indigenous issues and poor/tough living conditions - Living conditions in Indigenous communities today
Documents 7 to 8

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Topic 3:  Neglected Indigenous issues and poor/tough living conditions - Living conditions in Indigenous communities today
Documents 7 to 8

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Topic 2:   The truth and reconciliation commission an report
Documents 6a and 6b

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Topic 2:   The truth and reconciliation commission an report
Documents 6a and 6b

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Topic 1:   Breaking negative stereotypes                             Documents 1 to 5 BELOW

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Topic 1:   Breaking negative stereotypes                             Documents 1 to 5 BELOW

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